Lege

Author: Chen Yingde, Zhang Mimi
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Publish Date: 2005-11-01
Features: The French artist Fernand Léger is a master of mechanical aesthetic painting. He expressed his artistic philosophy as follows: "Our era is an age of extreme relativism, and I am someone who can make the most of this characteristic. I am a witness to my time." He discovered the mechanical beauty of the world he lived in—a world on the brink of modernization—and wove objectivity and grandeur together to create his "mechanical aesthetic" works. He paid great attention to the arrangement, order, and logic on the canvas.
Léger (1881–1955) was a French painter. Born on February 4, 1881, in Argentan, Normandy, he passed away on August 17, 1955, in the suburbs of Paris. In his early years, he studied at the école des Beaux-Arts and the Julian Academy in Paris. In the early 1940s, he traveled to the United States. After returning in 1945, he became politically a communist. His early works pursued meticulous formal beauty and pure color beauty. Paintings such as The Card Players and Three Women were influenced by geometric abstractionism and purism, featuring numerous curves. After the war, his style shifted toward realism, with themes often depicting workers and ordinary laborers. His works were large-scale, with clear colors, and his include Construction Workers and The Great Parade.